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(No Modell.)

G. O. DOWST.

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Patented Apr. 16, 1889.

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UNITED 'Sterns rires,

CHARLES O. DOXVST, OF XVAUKEGAN, TLLINOTS,

TAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,485, dated April16, 1889.

Application filed September 28, 1888. Serial No. 286,634. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES O. DoWsT, a citizen of the United States,residing at lVaukegan, in the county of Lake and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Tags, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to an improved tag for use more especially inlaundries and fabric-cleaning establishments generally to supply adesirable means for placing upon articles about to undergo the cleaningprocess the owners name or some other designating symbol whereby todistinguish, after the cleaning process, the ownership of an article,where, as is usual, the articles of several or many owners are putthrough the cleaning process at one time.

My object is to provide a tag for this purpose which shall be capable ofready attachment upon the article to be cleaned, be secure in its placeagainst detachment by the handling to which the article is subjected orthe machinery through which it is passed; and, furthermore, to provide atag having a surface capable of being written or printed upon with anindelible or moisture-proof ink, and which will not itself be injured orafected to obliterate such writing or printing by the action ofmoisture, and which shall at the saine time be capable of repeated useand be so inexpensive that it may be discarded after a single usewithout entailing material loss.

To the above ends my invention consists in a tag formed of hardmaterial, having on one surface cloth or a like material not affected bymoisture in a manner to destroy it as a vehicle for characters placedthereon with ink itself ineifaceable bythe action of water; and itfurther consists in the more detailed construction ofthe tag.

ln the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved tagfastened in position upon a cloth article; Fig. 2, a plan view,enlarged, of the metal blank out of which the tag is formed; Fig. 3,aview in side elevation of the tag in its completed state; and Fig.l 4.,a section taken on the line 4C of Fig. l, and viewed in the direction ofthe arrow.

A is the blank, comprising, preferably, a strip of thin sheet-brass orother non-corrosive pliant material, stamped out to or substantially tothe shape shown in Fig. 2, to form a body portion, B, having edges t anda perforation, s, and the narrow extension B provided at its extremitywith fasteningpoints q.

The blank A is formed into my improved tag by bending over the edges tat the dotted lines o@ toward each other on the face of the body portionand bending the part B at the line as toward the back of the bodyportion and the points q at the lines m2 toward each other to extendtoward the back of the body portion.

C is a strip of cloth preferably of about the length of the body portionB, and of the width of the same between the dotted lines x, and having,by preference, merely a perforation to coincide, when the strip offabric is adjusted in position upon the body portion B, with theperforation s in the latter. The cloth, C, is placed in position uponthe ,body portion B before the formation of the tag from the blank tocause t-he edges t, as they are bent, to clamp the edges of the fabricand4 hold it.

The fastening-points q when bent, as before described, are broughttogether to forni practically one fastener extending toward the rearside of the part B, whereby when the part B is bent at the line x towardthe part B the points of the fastener q will enter the perforation s,with which they are arranged to coincide.

l prefer in manufacturing my improved tags for the market to completethem in the form shown in Fig. 3, whereby it is only necessary inapplying them to pass in each instance an edge of the article to betagged between the point of the fastener q and the part B, and bypressing the fastener through said article and the perforation s andspreading the points apart secure the tag in position. The cloth orother material, C, affords a surface which may be readily written orprinted upon with suitable ink, which will not be obliterated by thecleaning to which the tagged article is subjected, and as the tag isclamped flat against the opposite sides of the article to which it issecured and is formed of quite thin material it does not affordobstruction, and is thus not liable to be torn IOC) from its position incleaning the article provided With it.

Cloth is the one material at present known to me which will best answerthe purpose of the part C of my improvement. I intend, however, that theuse for the purpose of any textile fabric other thanthat generallyinoluded under the term cloth, or any other suitable material whichWould be applied as a strip in the same manner as cloth, and which willabsorb ink and not be injuriously affected for my purpose by moisture,shall be embraced Within my invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is*

l. In a tag, the combination of the body portion B, and a strip ofcloth, C, on one side of the body portion and secured thereon by thebent edges f, substantially as described.

2. A tag comprising, in combina-tion, a body portion, B, having anopening, s, a strip of cloth, C, secured on the body portion, and a bentextension, B', having a fastener, q, at one end adapted to pass throughthe opening s, substantially as described.

3. Atag comprisin g, in combination, a body portion, B, having anopening, s, a strip of cloth, C, on one side of the body portion andsecured thereon by the bent edges t thereof, and a bent extension, Bhaving a fastener, q, at one end adapted to pass through the opening s,substantially as described.

CHARLES o. DoWsT.

In presence of- M. J, BOWERS, J. W. DYRENFORTH.

